Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other extreme Canada's mealy-mouthed Vincent Massey called for immediate lifting of Sanctions on the startling theory that that would be "fairer to Ethiopia...
...knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released. Joe was sent to play right field. He got a hit his first time at bat, continued to hit safely in 61 consecutive games, smashing the Pacific Coast League record of 45 to bits. When he finished the season of 1934, the Yankees...
...book publishing season of 1935-36 will probably be long remembered for its flood of able memoirs by U. S. foreign correspondents: The Chicago Tribune's Vincent Sheean and New York Times's Walter Duranty led off respectively with Personal History and I Write as I Please. The Chicago Daily News's John Gunther turned in Inside Europe, and its Negley Farson followed with The Way of a Transgressor. These shrewd, readable traders in world politics considerably disconcerted British newshawks who have for a century considered that the world's greatest news exchange was London. Last...
...Soak the Rich!" Although Communist supporters of the Blum Cabinet demanded an immediate soak-the-rich confiscation of part of all great French fortunes last week, Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol backed water so much from this position that his motto might have been, ''Don't Soak the Rich...
...ultimately in the councils of the Bank of France, threatened Frenchmen who have funds abroad with confiscation of equivalent funds unless the foreign deposit is reported to the Government, and implied that his "Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty by not reporting funds abroad. We must conquer fraud and fear...